This blog is the first in our AKF Run Team video series, highlighting our Boston Marathon runners. If you’d like to donate to them, you can do so here.

Amira Valliani is one of three runners who will wear the AKF Run Team logo in the 2014 Boston Marathon. Three years ago she could barely run a mile. She says: “Running has taught me that with the combination of discipline, dreams, and shoes, I can do anything.” Running the Boston Marathon to raise funds for the Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. is special for Amira, a chance to “redefine what I’m capable of accomplishing,” and to affirm values that she grew up with. Watch the video to hear her story.